NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 634

SENATE BILL 574

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE CHAPTER 62 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN UTILITIES OPERATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 62-3(23) is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"e.        The term 'public utility' shall include The University of North Carolina insofar as said University supplies telephone service, electricity or water to the public for compensation from the University Enterprises defined in G.S. 116-41.1(9)."

Sec. 2.  Subdivision (3) of G.S. 116-41.2 is hereby amended by deleting therefrom the phrase "(free of any control or regulation by any State regulatory body)" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(free of any control or regulation by any State regulatory body until January 1, 1973, and thereafter only by the North Carolina Utilities Commission)".

Sec. 3.  In order to provide a period for the development by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of records of the kind which may be required by the North Carolina Utilities Commission, the Utilities Commission shall have no authority in respect to the rates or service charges for the telephone service, electricity or water supplied to the public for compensation from the University Enterprises defined in G.S. 116-41.1(9) until January 1, 1973.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1971.